A writing and learning blog for English 367 at The Ohio State University.

Monday, May 28, 2012

essay two

SEYMOUR ALLEYNE

SOCCOR COACH/ HEAD DIRECTOR
of Santos FC

I enjoyed doing my interview
with couch Seymour. what I had in mind before was; when I hear the word
‘interview’ the first thing that comes up to my mind is ‘job interview’ where
you spend your time talking about your previous job experiences and how you are
hard worker and so on. Unfortunately this interview was a whole different
experience for me and it was also a great opportunity for me to have a
conversation with this interesting person, Mr. Seymour. Seymour and I have many
things in common, we both love the game of soccer in terms of playing, watching
and talking about soccer except he couches soccer for living and I’m not. Since
we both have a similar interest and hobby our interview turned out to be more
exciting and we have agreed upon many things. I learned that writing out the transcript for
the interview is harder than doing the interview itself.

“My interest is soccer, I
played soccer as a kid, I played in college, I played some pro level and now I
coach for a living. So my interest is helping the kids and passing on what I
know about the game, for me it’s not about winning or losing but it’s the love
for the game, so I try to pass that on. If I can help kids from low income
neighborhoods, then I will love to do that, it’s tough because the kids in
American from the low income neighborhoods, they really interested in
basketball and American football pretty much. So soccer is a hard cell, but the
good thing about soccer is that you don’t have to be certain size to play, and
as you know the best players in the world, Lionel Messi is like 5,5 or 5,6
height’ it’s all about his skills and his intelligence. So a lot of the kids
who aren’t 6,2 6,5 or 250 lbs that even can’t play basketball or those whose
smaller it’s easier fit for them to come and play soccer. So that’s what I do
and interested in “I live, breathe, eat soccer” Laughs, if I am not playing it,
I am coaching it. Because of the high level that I play at and because I can
play the game, I’m good at this game, as we get older you can’t play anymore,
so the fun for me and the motivation for me is to be able to see kids play, and
with a certain potential and I can get them better, I can get them to another
level.”

I picked out this specific
paragraph because Seymour explained to me what soccer is all about and how his
interest and passionate for soccer helped him pass on his experience to today’s
generation.